Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-08

looked like verdigris. The stewed apples
would be very nice II II
was not for the amount of hair
in it. He never got enough to eat,
and always rose from the table hungry
The cooking was very bad. Dick, the
head cook, was drunk two-thirds OF the
time, and left the crazy people to serve
up the food.
Chow do you know they were crazy?"
asked Mr.. Wellman.
because If they were not they would
not stay there" promptly responded the
witness.
The attendants, who hsd their meals
sitter the patients, were always In such 8
hurry that the patents had not time
enough for their meals. The attendants
wanted to get through, SO they could
smoke.
In speaking of acts of violence, the
witness swOre that he saw an attendant
named Cleary choke sn inofensive patient
so badly that he had to be revived. The
patient was afterwards sent to ward II
by order Of DR.. Trsutman, and he died
there IN two weeks.
81 saw patient named Mendelsohn
killed." declared the witness. 81 ssW
McHugh strike him. | also saw Cleary
knock him down. His forehead was cut
and the blood cIotted his hair. When
the doctor ordered MS head to be washed,
the attendants, McHugh and Clearv, took
MendelsOhn by the head and feet, and 4,
placing his head in the sink, grabbed both
feet, and ordering me to turn on the
water, they worked him up and down the
sink like q saw
"Did you report this?" the witness
was asked.
"No, sir; I knew better. I did not
want to be kept in there Tor probably
twenty-five years as permanent
lunatiC"
The witnessed continued that he saw
the attendant, Clesry, take patient
named Blake by the throat and choke
him, simply because he looked cut Of the
window. He also saw Cleary take an old
patient named Prenaugh, seventy-eight
years old, without teeth or mar, and COM
pei him to waltz around while the attend
ants whistled, and if he refused he would
strike him on the face. Another patient
named Ruddek Ward, from AmityvilIe,
was pulled around the ward by Clesry,
who took hold of him by the whiskers.
The result OF this treatment was that the
patient went into hts. This they called
"haging fun with the old man"
az saT IicHugh Jump on Parrish, and
I saw the attendant, kerns, Jump on and
kick Lidell, and because LldelI struck
him Kerns and Cleary beat MIN uumerCi-
fully"
The witness, continuing, said that ne
saw Clifford and CIeary best 8 patient
1E on Wit mr. nd hre Z
it to pieces on him, because Fish would
not go to bed. The attendant, Clifford,
always carried heavy stick with him
that he would use on the slightest provo
cation. The witness was put in charge of
seven suicidal patients, and when they
Oyerpowered him, and he called for help,
Clifford ran inland used mis- stick light
and left. Tie attendant, keTns, WIS
really kind hearted man, but he was
very easily eXasperated. Gunstadt, when
sober, spent his time reading the papers;
when drunk he would 60
to sleep. The attendant, Cleary,
was ga regular devil" There
was about four or five attendants for sew
enty-ive patients. The rooms and bed
ding were both irst-class. The witness
knew of man named Drake who was
confined in the asylum who in the sum-
mer was crazy on the subject of base ball,
but who in the winter was as sane as any
man.
The reason he did not testify at the
coroner's inquest in the case Of Mendel-
sohn WAS because he was confined in the
asylum st the time. The attendants were
g low class of men; he had seen an at
tendsnt named MGllon eat up cakes and
sweet meats sent to the patients by
friends outside, and that he (MsuoD)
went to the friends of patients and de-
manded money for favors to be done, and
that he kept the money. The witness
also testified that MslIon stole tobacco
from the patients. The witness was of
the opinion that the department could
obtain better attendants if they would
pay better salaries.